Facing Brick Walls โNobody ever liked Eileen anyway.โ Ouch. โEileen, Iโm really hoping that you will be our next pastor.โ Oooof. These words, and many variations on them, polarized the congregation when I left it over 20 years ago. What…
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Today is our final post for Celebrate PRIDE this week! We are sharing stories of ministers in the Learning Pastoral Imagination (LPI) Project. Every time we tell a story or share a narrative from our research, we believe it becomes…
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What brick walls have you come up against in your ministry? Quite a few come to mind. Some of those walls are of our own making. In an effort to protect ourselves we build walls. Walls of self-reliance. Defenses that…
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What do brick walls, American Idol and ministry have to do with each other? Read on . . . Lately, Iโve been watching American Idol. Now, in truth since my daughter was born, I nearly gave up television altogether. The…
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